1935 public laws – Ch.493 Sec.22
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CHAPTER 493 AN ACT TO EXEMPT PASQUOTANK COUNTY FROM THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE EIGHT OF CHAPTER SIXTY- SIX, VOLUME THREE, OF THE CONSOLIDATED STAT- UTES, KNOWN AS THE TURLINGTON ACT, AND TO SET UP AN ALCOHOLIC CONTROL BOARD FOR THE COUNTY OF PASQUOTANK. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
The board, duly authorized agents of the board, the state solicitor, or any citizen of the county, city or town where such a nuisance as is defined in section twenty-four of this act exists, or is kept or maintained, may, in addition to the remedies given in and punishment imposed by this act, maintain an action in the name of the state to abate and perpetually to enjoin the same. The Superior Courts shall have jurisdiction thereof, and in every case where the complaint charges, on the knowledge or belief of complainant, and is sworn to by two reputable citizens, that alcoholic beverages are manufactured, sold, dispensed, or used in any house, building, boathouse, club-room, fraternity room, lodge room, hotel, boarding house, apartment house, lodging house, boat, tent, or place contrary tose the laws of this State, an injunction shall be granted as soon as the complaint is presented to the Superior Court judge in term or in vacation. The injunction shall enjoin and restrain the owners, tenants, their agents, employees, servants, and any person connected with said houses, building, or other place named in this section, and all persons whomsoever from manufacturing, selling, dispensing, or using alcoholic beverages in said house, building, boathouse, club-room, fraternity room, boat, tent, or other place named in this section, and shall also restrain all persons from removing any alcoholic beverages then on said premises until the further order of the court. Upon the hearing of the cause when it shall have been matured, and set for hearing as required by law, upon deposition of witnesses, documentary and oral evidence, if the judge shall be satisfied that the material allegations of the complaint are true, although the premises complained of may not then be unlawfully used, it or he shall continue the injunction against such house, building, or place for such period of time as the court may think proper, with the right to dissolve the injunction upon the application of the owner, lessee or person in possession of such house, building, or place if a proper case is shown for dissolution.